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The massacre at the Sbarro restaurant

At 2.00pm on a hot summer's day
in August 2001, a Hamas terror gang executed a bomb attack
via a human bomb and a team of bombers on a busy pizza shop in the center of Jerusalem.

A resident of the village of Aqaba,
north of Tulkarm, the human bomb,
Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri (picture),
single and 23 (by some accounts 22), son of a
well-to-do
land-owning family, entered the busy Sbarro branch at the
corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road at lunchtime
on a school vacation day in Jerusalem.

(Many news and analysis sources use
the expression "suicide bomber". We reject that term; al-Masri's
goal and that of his handlers and the others involved was not
for him to kill himself - that was a mere by-product of the
plot - but to kill others. This is not suicide and
calling it that amounts to an unjustified focus - or worse - on
the actions and motivations of the barbaric killer and his
accomplices.)

But eventually
it was clear that15 Jews (picture)
were killed;
one
remains unconscious more than a decade later. Some 130 others, including
passers-by, were injured in
various serious degrees.

Entirely unguarded at the time, the Sbarro restaurant
was filled with patrons, most of them children and young mothers.
These, as we subsequently learned, were precisely the preferred target of the barbarians of Hamas and
its allies.
Fifteen
people were murdered there that day, most of them children,
including Malki Roth.

Hundreds of innocents inside and in the vicinity
were maimed and injured. Victims of a
cross-fire? Caught up by tragic mistake? Hardly. The attack on Sbarro was carefully and deliberately planned by multiple
individuals in the service of jihadism in general and Hamas, the
pre-eminent practitioner of Islamicist savagery, in particular.

Below we have compiled a selection of reports
from a variety of sources that chronicled the events as they
were happening. We start with a brief chronology and name some
of those convicted of their roles in this grotesque outrage.

(Above) Front page of the Melbourne
Age, August 11, 2001. The massacre at the Sbarro restaurant in downtown Jerusalem
captured headlines throughout the world for a day or two.

Frimet
and Arnold Roth have written as often as they can on the experience of
terror, and about losing their daughter Malki. A selection of their
published essays, articles and speeches is here.

Who, what and when

The Sbarro massacre was
coordinated and planned by the Hamas terror organization's Ramallah
branch.

Six weeks later, a triumphal exhibit
at Al Najah University, the largest in the West Bank, featured a
mock-up of the Sbarro restaurant including gnawed pizza
crusts and bloody plastic body parts suspended from the ceiling
as if they were blasting through the air. See the
New York Times
report (PDF
version)
and this
video
record
of the event.

Hamas, which today
rules Gaza with an iron and bloody fist, published a thoroughly dishonest, self-delusional account
here.

The explosive charge was manufactured by
Abdallah Jamal
Barghouti (2006
picture),
the chief “engineer” of the Hamas infrastructure in the Judea
region. The bomb, along with screws and nails to magnify the
devastation, was assembled inside a guitar case which Al-Masri
carried. Barghouti is a Kuwait who settled in the West Bank
village of Burqa in 1999. He has been frequently described in
the media - and from his own
mouth - as the brains behind the massacre.

At his trial,
was produced to show that Barghouti's clansman
Marwan Barghouti - a prominent Palestinian Arab political
figure now serving several life sentences for murder [background] - paid Abdallah
Barghouti $500
to build the bomb. This came on top of
the $117,000 he received for his troubles from Hamas, according
to
evidence given to the court in Abdallah Barghouti's
multi-murder trial.

Others were involved in providing funds - large sums of cash
- for the terrorists themselves and for their families. A 2005
news article "Hamas
Financier Detained" describes the involvement of Hamas
'activist' Ahmad Saltana [PDF version
here] in the
financing of the terrorist murders.

The
human bomb’s guide was Ahlam 'Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi, also
known as Ahlam Tamimi (2001
pic;
2006 pic), at the time a 20-year-old
innocent-faced Jordanian national who lived in Ramallah, studied in Bir Zeit,
and worked as a journalist. Tamimi was involved in gathering the
intelligence for the attack and on the day of the massacre, along with the suicide
bomber and the charge hidden inside the guitar, she headed for a
taxi-cab station in Ramallah, where they took a taxi to
Jerusalem. Tamimi carried a camera and spoke with the suicide
bomber in English so that they could inconspicuously pass for
tourists.

She was arrested on 14th September 2001. For her part
in the massacre at Sbarro, Tamimi was sentenced to sixteen
life terms, or 320 years, in an Israeli jail
(report and
report). She was the
first woman to have been recruited by Hamas' Izzadine el-Qassam
gang.
She has never expressed remorse of any sort.
In fact, she is proud of the deaths she engineered, and she has
had multiple opportunities to say so publicly [for instance
here].

And for some insight
into the state of mind of the family of Al-Masri, the human bomb
(irresponsibly and inaccurately described in various places at the time of the massacre as
peace-loving and as being appalled by their son's actions), please see
the Washington Post feature article "Where Palestinian
Martyrs Are Groomed: West Bank City of Jenin Emerges as Suicide
Bomb Capital" [linked
here]. See also "Bomber
Dropped `Martyr' Hints", published on 10-Aug-01, a day after
the massacre.

In 2011, the official
PA television station honored Ahlam Tamimi. Her relatives were
interviewed at length, with the camera focusing on an award
reading: "A gift of the Fatah Palestinian National Liberation
Movement, Ramallah El Bireh branch, to the heroic prisoner Ahlam
Tamimi. As a token of esteem for your sacrifices and your
acts of heroism."
This went to air on PA TV on March 10, 2011, and was
subsequently reported by one of the very few agencies that pays
any attention to what the Palestinian regimes (both of them) say
to their own citizens about terror. [See
PMW
bulletin, March 17, 2011]

Abdallah Barghouti's counsel,
Taufiq Basul,
said
his client felt "his actions were legal as part of the game
Israel is playing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip". Barghouti
himself pleaded guilty and told the court he "did this to kill
as many Israelis as possible": [2003
report in PDF form]. He was rewarded in December 2004
with a sentence of 67 life-terms in an Israeli prison (report).
In a later
interview, he said: "I do not accept responsibility for
their deaths. I feel pain, of course. They are little children.
But the government of Israel is solely responsible."

Interviewed in April 2006 by CBS' television program "60
Minutes", Abdallah Barghouti
said of the death toll in the Sbarro massacre and the other
bombings he engineered: "I feel bad
because the number is only 66."

Hamas terroristBillal
Barghoutiwas
also captured [source]
and he admitted that after his participation in the Sbarro
attack, he found refuge in the home of Fatah Tanzim leader, and
still-prominent Palestinian political figure,Marwan Barghouti,
who armed him with a pistol when he left for another safe house.
As we noted above, Marwan Barghouti played a key enabling role
by
paying Abdallah
Barghouti $500 to build the bomb-inside-a-guitar-case explosive.

Our experience is that the murderous role of
Marwan Barghouti has gotten far too little media coverage and
has benefited from a comprehensive whitewash.
Back in 2002, in a report about the same Billal Barghouti, a
clansman of Marwan Barghouti, the Foreign Ministry of Israel disclosed this

Further to the IDF Spokesman's communique of
3 April [2002] which announced the surrender of terrorists
in Betunia, additional information has come to light in
course of questioning regarding senior Hamas terroristBillal
Barghouti's cooperation with the West Bank leader of
Arafat's own Fatah factionMarwan
Barghouti.
Billal stated that when he was wanted in connection with his
terrorist activities - which included orchestrating the
fatal bombing of the Sbarro Pizzaria in Jerusalem in which
15 were killed and 107 injured -he
stayed for a week in the home of Marwan Barghouti. He added
that when he left the house, Marwan Barghouti armed him with
a pistol.
This admission on the part of a wanted Hamas terrorist
testifies to the support that Marwan Barghouti extended
to other terrorist organizationswhile
simultaneously directing the activities of the Fatah's armed
militia, the Tanzim [more]

Immediate aftermath

In the aftermath of the massacre,
Israeli forces
initiated certain non-lethal actions [PDF]
in the Jerusalem area against the Palestinian terror
organizations. (It's been suggested at various times that al-Masri's
family were opposed to, or even horrified by, their son's
murderous actions. But a Palestinian Authority official source,
quoted by
the unimpeachable MEMRI, reports that Hamas official Ashraf
Sawaftah, speaking publicly a week after the massacre of a
ceremony honoring the bomber, said this: "His relatives
distributed sweets and accepted their son as a bridegroom
married to 'the black-eyed,' not as someone who had been killed
and was being laid in the ground."

The poster at left appears in a special
memorial scrapbook dedicated to Palestinian martyrs (shahids).
It is dedicated to the memory of Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri,
“who carried out the heroic act in Jerusalem”. Our source is a
document entitled “Albums
and school notebooks imbued with messages of admiration for
Palestinian martyrs (shahids), portraying them as role models to
be emulated”, a special information bulletin published by the
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center)

Media reports: Israel and the West

(Oldest at the top; newest at the foot of the
page)

Media reports:
The Arab
world

"Israel
stunned by Jerusalem blast", BBC News [Thursday, 9
August, 2001, 23:33 GMT 00:33 UK]: "A suicide bomb attack at a
pizza parlour in the heart of Jerusalem has killed at least 15
people - including a number of children - and injured more than
90. We saw bodies thrown all over the floor and people ran into
my store dripping with blood... BBC Middle East analyst Roger
Hardy says the attack will strengthen the hand of Mr Sharon
against doves in his cabinet who have been pushing for more
political dialogue with Palestinian leaders." [More]

Here, according to
Moslem World Today, is how the emerging leaders of the Palestinian
Arabs relate to the massacre at the Sbarro restaurant in 2005. Read and
weep.

Hamas Calls For More Suicide Bombings
Friday,
January 14. 2005 / Khaled Abu Toameh / BIR ZEIT / ...Hundreds of
students attended a rally organized by Hamas at Bir Zeit University,
where they called for more suicide attacks against Israel. "Oh suicide bomber, wrap yourself with an explosive belt and fill the
scene with blood," chanted a chorus of five male students at the rally,
held by the Hamas-affiliated Islamic List to mark the ninth anniversary
of the killing of Hamas bomb-maker Yehya Ayyash, better known as "The
Engineer." Green Hamas flags and large portraits of slain Hamas leaders
Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi decorated the campus and the hall
where some 500 activists gathered to honor the former university student
responsible for a string of suicide bombings that killed at least 100
Israelis in the mid-90s. Organizers said the timing of the parley was
not linked to the election of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as Yasser
Arafat's successor. Speakers refrained from making any reference to the
election, pointing out the event, approved by the university
administration, had been planned long before the vote. They also refused
to comment on the results of the vote. "Ayyash is alive and don't say
that he's dead," a speaker told the crowd, who responded by shouting "Allahu
Akbar! (God is great)." Another speaker described the Hamas bomb-maker
as "the engineer of death for those who deserved to die." The students also paid tribute
to another colleague, Izzaddin al-Masri, who carried out the suicide
attack in Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant in 2002, killing 16 people and
wounding more than 100. The Hamas rally was seen as a show of
strength in the wake of Abbas's victory and a reminder of the tough
challenges he faces from the Islamic group and its allies... [More]

Suicide
Bombings are Legitimate Even if Children Are Killed: An
editorial in the Egyptian government daily Al-Masaa praised suicide/ martyrdom operations.
Here
is an astonishing report - translated from the Arabic by
Middle
East Media Research Institute MEMRI, describing lavish,
virtually unlimited, praise heaped on the heads of people like Malki's
murderers in January 2004 (!) Al-Masaa
is a daily Egyptian paper controlled by the government of Egypt.
Excerpt:
"Even if during [a martyrdom operation] civilians or children
are killed – the blame does not fall upon the Palestinians, but on
those who forced them to turn to this modus operandi... Ultimately, we
should bless every Palestinian man or woman who goes calmly to carry out
a martyrdom operation, in order to receive a reward in the Hereafter,
sacrificing her life for her religion and her homeland and knowing that
she will never return from this operation." The
government of Egypt receives more than $2 billion in foreign aid each
year from the US.

Clyde
Haberman of the New York Times filed a report within
hours of the massacre, datelined 10-Aug-01. The NYTimes.com
website has it
here, and we have an
offline version in PDF form. "Israeli police officers said
the bomb was packed with nails, guaranteeing that it would cause
maximum harm. And by striking at this particular restaurant, an
outlet of the Sbarro pizza chain, the bomber made it inevitable
that many of his victims would be young families, including
small children. Strollers and baby carriers lying in the
wreckage testified to that."

Jerusalem
Post:
Name
of Fifteenth Bombing Victim Released (10-Aug-01) "Malka
Chana (Malki) Roth, 15, from Jerusalem's northern Ramot neighborhood, is
the 15th victim in yesterday's suicide terror attack at a downtown
pizzeria in the capital."

Melbourne Age:
"My
Daughter Was Murdered Today" (10-Aug-01) Arnold Roth " contacted The Age because he didn't want his daughter to become
just another statistic in the conflict between Israelis and
Palestinians." [If the original page is inaccessible, a copy of the
text is here.]

"Explosion,
then arms and legs rain down" Jack Kelley in USA Today
10-Aug-01: "It was a scene out of a war movie. The blast was so
powerful it blew out the front of the Sbarro pizza restaurant on
Jaffa Street. It knocked down people up to 30 yards away and
sent flesh onto second-story balconies on the next block.
Traumatized women, some with nails from the bomb embedded in
their faces, arms and chests, huddled on the street corner and
cried. Men stood motionless in shock. Children, their faces
burned, walked around screaming, "Mom, mom, where are you?"
Blood splattered the walls and dripped onto sidewalks." [More]

Associated
Press: "Bomber
Dropped `Martyr' Hints", published on 10-Aug-01, a day after
the massacre: "Al-Masri said Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon 'is continuing the policy of killing our
people, and my son succeeded in carrying out a suitable
response.' Friends, relatives and neighbors congratulated the
smiling elder al-Masri. [More]

Melbourne Age:
Born
Here, Killed Far Away (10-Aug-01) After a frantic afternoon and evening, her family found her body in the
pre-dawn hours at the coroner's office in
TelAviv. If anything could deepen their grief it is this: the world forgot that
behind the statistics of body counts and reprisals was their lovely
daughter and sister. [PDF]

SKY
News "Why
This Man Calmly Killed 15", 10-Aug-01: "This is the face of
the suicide bomber who, with a calm collected determination,
strode up to the counter of a Jerusalem pizza restaurant and
blew himself up with a nail-packed bomb. His father is "filled
with pride" at the act." [More]

Australian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Press Release:
I
am horrified by the terrorist attack in Jerusalem (Statement of
Foreign Minister Downer, 10-Aug-01): "I wish to convey personally, and
on behalf of the Australian Government, my sincere condolences
to the families of the killed and injured, particularly the
family of 15 year old Malki Roth, originally from Melbourne. I
have directed the Embassy in Tel Aviv to provide whatever
support they can in this dreadful situation." [PDF]

Australian
Associated Press syndicated report:
Malki's Death a Tragic Waste 10-Aug-01. "Melbourne-born
Malki Roth was a talented flautist and an outstanding student
with a passion for working with children with disabilities. The
15-year-old was among 18 people killed when a Palestinian blew
himself up inside a kosher pizza parlour in the heart of
Jerusalem. She was so badly injured in the overnight blast it
took hours to identify her remains." [More]

"Revenge
bombing kills 15: Palestinian groups vie for credit for the
pizza-restaurant blast that left hundreds injured" Flore de
Preneuf in Salon.com, 11-Aug-01."Ehud Olmert, Jerusalem’s
mayor who came to inspect the damage, gave an apology of sorts:
“There’s nothing the government can do that it hasn’t done
already. In 90 percent of cases we’re successful at preventing
attacks. We’ll try to be as good as we can.” He rejected the
idea of putting more police on the streets of Jerusalem. “We
can’t live like this with streets full of security people,” he
said. “We can’t change our lifestyle.” [More]

Melbourne-born
girl was one of those killed as she met her best friend for
a pizza lunch in central Jerusalem Sydney Telegraph
(11-Aug-01) "Izz-el-Din al-Masri, holding an M16 rifle and a
Koran, is thought to be the bomber who blew himself up and
killed at least 15 people... He realised his dream this week,
taking along with his own the lives of 15 Jewish civilians, six
of them children. Eighty more were injured of whom 44 remained
in hospital last night. Australian teenager Malki Roth, 15, from
Melbourne, was among his victims. She was waiting for friends at
the inter-section of Jaffa Rd and King George V Streets..."
[PDF]

Melbourne Age:
Member
of Parliament Michael Danby Expresses Condolences (11-Aug-01): "Your pain was evident from your note and the picture published on
The Age website. I wish to express my deep shock at the tragic loss of
life in the heart of Jerusalem overnight and in particular, the futility
of innocent people being the victims of a suicide bomber..." (Originally
published
here.)

Where
Palestinian Martyrs Are Groomed: West Bank City of Jenin Emerges
as Suicide Bomb Capital - Daniel Williams,
Washington Post, 15-Aug-01: "Israelis used to come to the
restaurant, when I ran it. They felt at ease enough to put their
rifles against the wall. I looked at them as people. Now, no one
looks at them as human," he [the father of the human bomb, Al-Masri]
said. "On the street, people simply say there are no options.
My son and our family are not poor... We are desperate only in
the way all Palestinians are. We have to get rid of the Jews
from around us." [More]

Jerusalem Post:
"Friends
in Life and Death Etgar Lefkovits (13-Aug-01)
"They were the best of friends. Two teenage girls, both 15, from the same
neighborhood, the same Ezra youth movement. Malka Roth and Michal Raziel
of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot were constantly at each
other's homes. They shared everything." [PDF]

Haaretz: "She
Isn't Just Another Statistic" (Charlotte Halle)
(13-Aug-01). Although it was just three days since Arnold and
Frimet Roth had learned that their oldest daughter, Malka Chana, was
among the 15 fatalities in Thursday's bombing of the Sbarro restaurant
in Jerusalem, the mood in the household was not one of anger.

Washington Post:
The
Suicide Bomber Took Our Daughter's Life But Not Our Convictions (Lee
Hockstader) (18-Aug-01) When I interviewed Arnold Roth the other day, his modest apartment in
northern Jerusalem was teeming with grieving visitors: Roth's teenage
daughter Malki was among the victims of the pizzeria bombing. Roth is a
49-year-old lawyer who manages a pharmaceutical technology company, a
thoughtful man whose dignity was as evident as his despair. (If the
article is not accessible via the Post's site, click
here
for an offline copy.) [PDF]

"My
daughter was victim of barbarians' baseless hatred, says
Australian father"Sydney Morning Herald,
21-Aug-01 "What we see is a colossal, catastrophic failure of
leadership on the part of our neighbours, and something which
must change because it's inconceivable that it would continue
for another minute... No leadership can lead its people to such
a historical catastrophe for long without the system rising up
and reacting. But... there's no dialogue with barbarians." The
original online article was published
here. If it has been archived, a stored copy is
here.

Jewsweek:
Shimon
Apisdorf's Tragic Trip (August 2001)
Hours after hearing about the Sbarro bomb, author Shimon Apisdorf was on
a plane to Israel. While there, he filled a journal with anecdotes,
personal thoughts, and poems.

Melbourne Age:
Victim's
Mother Shares Grief (21-Aug-01) Speaking from Israel via satellite, Frimet Roth shared her grief with an
audience of more than 3000 - many in school uniforms - at the Caulfield
Hebrew Congregation hall. [The original article has been removed from
the Age website.
This
link takes you to an offline PDF copy.]

Melbourne
Age:
Malki: Her Father Speaks (Ian Munro) (21-Aug-01) Malki Roth was 15
years old, an accomplished musician and youth club leader, heading into
year 11 at school and thinking about studying at university. (The
original has been removed from the Age website. This is a PDF version of
the Google cache of the page.)

Haaretz:
Disproportionate
Number of Anglos Slain (Charlotte Halle) (24-Aug-01)
After paying several condolence calls to bereaved Anglo families in
recent months, Olmert said he admired them for "the restrained way
they deal with their pain." The mayor observed that the families he
had met, many of them Orthodox, seemed fully aware of the "dangers,
difficulties and risks" of life in Israel

Baltimore Sun:
"Terror Tables Turned for American Journalist in Israel", Peter Hermann
(13-Sep-01) (The original article has been
removed from the source website, but remains accessible via Google's cache)
"A week after Malki Roth's death, police gave Mr. Roth his
daughter's nylon bag, which she used to hold her cell phone. Mr. Roth
carefully opened the torn remains. Out fell a nail. "A calling card
of the barbarians," he said."

Time Magazine:
Frimet Roth's letter to the Editors was published in their 17th September
2001 edition. The original text, as submitted and before Time's editing, is
here.

Haaretz:
Shin-Bet
Arrests Perpetrators of Sbarro Bombing (17-Sep-01) Arrested were Muhammad Douglas, 30, who in addition to being a member of
Hamas is an activist in Force 17; and Ahlam Tamimi, 21, a female
Jordanian citizen who in recent years has lived in the Ramallah area.
Both are students at Beir Zeit University.

Jerusalem Post:
Sbarros
Recreated by Palestinians (23-Sep-01) (PDF file - requires PDF viewer software)
Visitors crowded through the doorway to see a recreation of the August
9th suicide bombing, complete with body parts and pizza slices strewn
all over. In the downtown Jerusalem attack, the bomber and 15 other
people were killed.
An
AP picture of the Sbarro recreation is here. The New York Times
reported on the exhibit in a 26th September 2001 article
entitled "An Exhibit On Campus Celebrates Grisly Deed"
here.

And it's captured on video
here (see the link at the top of that page).

The
Times (London) published a lengthy analysis of the state of mind of the
barbarians who engineered the Sbarro massacre. It's no longer on-line so we have
replicated it offline here.

Irish Sunday Business
Post Death
of innocents Niall Stannage (3 Feb
2002) "The duo had spent the morning helping to decorate another
friend's bedroom. They planned to attend a meeting of Ezra, a Jewish
youth movement, in the afternoon. They were looking forward to it. But
first, they thought, they should have some lunch. They chose Sbarro, a
city centre pizza restaurant popular with teenagers, as the venue. A
young man arrived at Sbarro around the same time as the
girls." (An offline version is
here.)

Christian
Science Monitor: "Families
mourn loves, not heroes, on Israeli retreat" Ilene Prusher
(30-Oct-02) "They were neighbors. They were counselors in the same youth
group. They even shared the same initials. And they were heading to a
meeting for their volunteer work when they stopped off to get a slice of
pizza in downtown
Jerusalem. There, a year ago Aug. 9, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew
himself up in a Sbarro restaurant, killing both of them and 13 others.
Now, it is the families of Malki Roth and Michal Raziel who have
something in common – an unbearable loss that they feel few around them
understand." [PDF]

ABCnews / Nightline
Interview
with Frimet and Arnold Roth / "Frimet: I
don't think anyone would describe me as hateful. I'm just aching -
that's
what there is in my heart." (29-Oct-02) [This interview appears to
have been removed from the ABC News website and is currently not
accessible elsewhere.]

Jewish Bulletin of
Northern California: Foundation
continues work of a murdered daughter (25 Apr 2003) "How
do you memorialize your beloved daughter, murdered by a terrorist when
she was only 15? How best to celebrate her life and carry on her good
works?... Inaugurated in January, the Malki Foundation was created to
enable families of very ill or disabled children to care for them at
home."

The
Scotsman: "Palestinian
Sentenced to 320 Years for Bombing" (23-Oct-03): "A Palestinian
woman was sentenced to 320 years in prison by an Israeli military court
today for her role in a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem pizzeria that
killed 15 people. Jordanian-born Ahlam Tamimi was the first woman
to be recruited by the Izzadine el-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of
the violent Islamic Hamas movement...
Among the dead in what the court
judgment called “a satanic act” were toddlers, teenagers and elderly."
More.

Tamimi was twenty years old at the time
of the massacre. Far from matching the media cliché of under-privileged
and 'desperate', she was a university student and journalist with a troubled
personal past who transplanted herself from Jordan to Ramallah in 1998.
In the days before the massacre, she visited the center of Jerusalem
several times, collecting intelligence information. After her arrest,
she confessed to a previous attempt at civilian mass-murder by planting
a bomb among beer-cans on the shelf of a mid-town supermarket, a few
minutes walk from Sbarro in the center of Jerusalem on July 30, 2001. This bomb was discovered in time
and innocent lives were saved. Ten days later, the outcome was
completely different.

"[Jordan-based] Arab Bank denies
ever knowingly doing business with terrorists. And officials
insist the bank has never moved money for anyone officially
designated a terrorist by the U.S. government. However, NBC News
provided the bank with documents showing it dealt with three
Hamas terror groups even after they were blacklisted by the
United States. It's against the law for banks in the United
States to handle transactions for terrorists on the blacklist."
Lisa Myers and the NBC
Television Investigative Unit, report (May 11, 2005): "FBI
investigates Arab Bank for allegedly supporting suicide bombers
and doing business with suspected terrorists..." [More]

A
Year Later: Still Struggling to Recover An important
article (offline
version here) by Tamar Rotem in Haaretz examines how life looks to
families impacted by a terrorist massacre. [View the PDF version
here if Haaretz has archived it.] "The way children react to a
traumatic event is altogether different from that of their
parents... Children are not little adults... They may seem
easygoing, laughing and playing with everyone. The signs can be
a lot more suggested: the nature of the game changes and becomes
less complex, their drawings become monotonic and repetitive.
Babies and toddlers develop eating and sleep disorders, and cry
more often. Kindergarten and school-age children who have been
exposed to trauma will express their distress through fears of
abandonment. In school, children are liable to present
behavioral problems."

The
Red Carpet: Angela Bertz
describes the events of a fateful afternoon in Jerusalem,
9th August 2001 "It was barely 48 hours after the bombing
that Izzedine’s sister would give birth to a son. She named him
after a man that had killed 15 innocent people. When asked what
hopes she had for the child, she said she wanted him to be “like
his uncle.”

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